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The U.S. military have delivered the first three lightweight, counter-mortar radar systems for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren told this to reporters on November 21, a Ukrinform correspondent reported. “The radar systems see incoming mortar fire and quickly calculate the point of origin of a mortar...

A camera in Donetsk has filmed a white KamAZ truck from the so-called “humanitarian aid convoy” from Russia moving in the city, accompanied by two trucks towing artillery guns. National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) information and analytical center deputy spokesman Volodymyr Polevy showed the video at a briefing in Kyiv on...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said that he sees no prospects for Ukraine’s joining NATO. He said this in an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel. “I think that the partnership between Ukraine and NATO is possible, but not the membership,” Steinmeier said. He said that it was unrealistic to think that...

Near Donetsk and Avdiyivka, after sustaining losses, the main forces of Russian-terrorist troops have retreated from the contact line with Ukrainian troops, Information Resistance group leader Dmytro Tymchuk has said. “The artillery firing positions of the enemy were spotted in the area of Spartak, Putylivsky bridge, Yakovlivka, as well as...

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM) to Ukraine has recorded a mortar attack near Stanytsia Luhanska on November 21. This is stated in a report of the mission for November 23. “Whilst stationary in the proximity of Mykhailivka (45km east of Luhansk) the SMM heard continuous mortar shelling, concentrated in an area in the direction...

A further increase in the number of Russian-terrorist forces is being reported in the area of Debaltseve, Information Resistance group leader Dmytro Tymchuk has said. “After unsuccessful attempts by the enemy to move to the outskirts of Debaltseve from the direction of Nikishyne and Chornukhyne three tactical groups of local militants...

Militants have attacked the positions of the Ukrainian anti-terrorist operation forces 56 times over the past 24 hours, using different types of weapons, the press center for the anti-terrorist operation has reported. “The positions of our troops were shelled by militants with artillery and mortars 40 times, with small arms five times, one...

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden have agreed that the only way to achieving peace in Donbas was compliance with the Minsk agreements. Poroshenko said this at a joint press conference with Biden in Kyiv on Friday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported. “We have reached a complete agreement that the most...

Militants have fired on the positions of the Ukrainian anti-terrorist operation forces in the Donetsk direction with mortars, tanks and small arms three times over the past 24 hours and again tried to storm the positions of Ukrainian soldiers at the Donetsk airport. Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) information and analytical...

The Ukrainian government should be formed in the next ten days. Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said this after the initialing of a coalition agreement on Friday. “The government should be formed in the next ten days, because we need to hold talks with the IMF and major international partners. We should immediately adopt the law on...